European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 22,1969 the stars and stripes Page 23 cohere basketball a seniors put top gun Reid on Dean s list b ii Amstock Atlanta a contrary to the popular proverb rules arc not made Tobe broken. Al least not at the University of North Carolina. When leading scorer . Reid missed the tar Heel curfew of i . By about five minutes the other night he was sus Pended and sent Home to watch his team s next Mcaa tournament game Tram longdistance.1 you Don t fool with Mother nature or Dean Smith. The seniors make the rules and i enforce them Smith said after North Carolina survived a scare sunday to beat Cla bs-81 and Advance to the round of i.-. That Means Reid n Junior had no input on the i . Rule. Smith noted that saying next year if he s there . Will be a senior and he might say Mocur Cwi ". " if he s there. Reid could opt for the Aba draft Al though he might be devalued after what has been a sub Par season for him an other year in Chapel Hill could probably make him More attractive to the pros. Smith knows the Aba option is there for the Hie Guy but he also knows thai the talented tar heels can probably survive without  against the Bruins using a Little ingenuity \ we distributed the 32 minutes he would have played Smith said. Kevin Madden played More with his Back to the Basket and we were Able to Post him up As a Small Forward. Without ., we lose rebounding and his boxing out. Disability to score draws people to  Madden scored 22 Points and Carolina got double figures from four Otherl Myers the tar heels Are smart enough to know though that their  More complicated when Reid in t around. Attis time of year left Lobo said you Don t want to play without  rules Are rules and the Dean of discipline applies the penalty. Reid s sus pension left Carolina with just seven starters still two Over the customary number. Smith usually rotates eight play ers and you never know which five will Start from one game to the next. This was a function at least in part of Reid s absence for the season s first nine games while he re covered from a stress fracture. Theta heels went 8-1 and the revolving door starting lineup became a  the sea son s Over i flex Plain How i do it Smith said sound ing a bit mysterious about his  there was no mystery however about what would happen to Reid when he forgot to Check his watch. Our seniors were consulted Smith said. But the one game suspension was almost an  s Over now and Well Welcome him Back for the next game Smith  was t the first time the coach has had to sit Reid Down. A year ago or. Got involved in a ruckus off Campus and the Price was a suspension for the opening game of the season. But benching your leading scorer forthe first game is quite different from sending him Home before what might Bethe last one. The Mcaa tournament is High stakes russian Roulette when a sin Gle loss finishes your season. This is no time for fooling , however does not look at the Calendar when it comes to applying the rules. Before he broke the curfew there were tit i Levels Roach Dean Smith -. I enforce them clues that Reid was feeling rambunctious. Shortly after Lobo took an Elbow to the head against Southern in North Carolina s tourney opener a shot that would keep him out of practice the next Day Reid responded in kind Belling one of the Southern players. That was not retaliation Smith said. At Carolina we Don t do  informed that Reid had said quite the opposite confirming hut he was indeed getting even for the blow Lebo had absorbed Smith frowned did he say thai that s interesting the coach said sounding less than thrilled with that bit of business. There arc degrees of punishment though. When Scott Williams got a tech Nical foul against Southern the team Rule was extra laps at practice the next Day for everybody. Whal happens then if Smith gets a technical  the coach  rather matter of factly Isamit was for the team and i Don t have to  Dayton dumps 437-win coach by James 11 Annah Dayton Ohio of Don Donoh or whose -2s years As basketball coach at the University of Dayton yielded school record 437 victories and an appearance in the 1967 Mcaa championship game says he is not bitter about being fired. It in t  to have to go through this from my standpoint or the University presi dents Donoher said monday. Thai s the Way it. Goes. I be got Alt to be grateful for. The Issue now is let s get our new coach in Here and pet Dayton Basket Ball Back on i rack he said. Earlier monday Tom Francks the Donoher University y vice president for athletic programs announced at a news Confer ence that Donoher had been asked to relinquish his coaching duties and As sume other administrative duties at the school. Frericks snid Donoher was told of the " University s decision by brother Ray mond Filz the  Sun Day afternoon in Fin s office. It s not something 1 enjoy  Frericks said or have great respect for Don. T Don t like the  this ultimately had to come to this conclusion but 1 do support the decision that was  fre Ricles indicated thai a major reason. For the decision to change coaches was the tsim s performance in the past three years All losing seasons. The flyers went13-15 in 1986-87, 13-18 in 1987-88 and 12-17 in "1988-89,  we want to be competitive to play in a Post season tournament said Frericks. "1 think we want to be competitive in the midwestern Cotoc Jmc con Ference. And 1 think we want to have teams that arc  Donoher s 25-year career record was 437-275, All at Dayton. In 1966-67, he guided the flyers to the Mcaa finals where they were Defeated by Urcla 79 64.the 57-year-old Donoher said he has made no decision on his future plans. And he said he docs not resent the University s decision. They be Given me an awful lot of chances Here he said. I wish 1 could have Lei us out of inc Hole we Rem but it did t happen. So let s get the next Guy in Here and get on with  Donoher said he received supportive Telephone Calls from Indiana coach Nobby Knight and former Depaul coach Ray Meyer. They re just kind of sympathizing Wilh me and telling me to hang in there Donoher said. Miami of Ohio coach Jerry Peirson said College basketball lost a touch of class Wilh Donoher s dismissal. It s a sad moment in intercollegiate athletics Peirson said. It was Tough playing University of Dayton you d Hope your team played Well enough Towin but win or lose you were playing a class act. It s being eliminated from this  Gary Williams head coach at Ohio stale said the departure of a coach for any reason is dim cull for the players. Obviously i feel bad for Don. But atthe same time it s not my role to judge the situation Williams said. Any Lime you see a coach move hell gel criticize for leaving the program leaving the play ers. Bui on the other hand things like this happen too. It works both ways.", the University has not yet formed a search committee to find a replacement for do Nolier and has no one specifically in mind to replace Donoher Frericks said. A knoxv1lle. Tenn a Don Devoe resigned tuesday after 11 Yeasas head Roach of the University of ten Nessee basketball team saying the move1 was an Effort to Stop the persistent re mors surrounding my status.". Dvoe gave the reason for his Depar Ture in 11 Tetter